I was pretty happy with the way Monday's painting turned out however I saw some things that I thought could be improved. This painting was just an experiment and not one that I would put up for sale so I decided to play with it. In the process I learned a few things. It is indeed hard for me to mentally go back to where I was when I first painted it. I thought that the sky needed darkening at the top to give it more depth and I was right. I was also right in my decision to cool the far escarpment again to give it more depth. The field did indeed need to have more golden glow and less purple but glazing with opaque colours does not work very well.
The fact that I cannot get the freshness in my studio that comes so easily outdoors was strongly reinforced. I find painting outdoors joyful even when I fail but painting in my studio is drudgery for the most part. I need to spend more time in my studio to increase my comfort zone there.
All in all it was a lesson well learned. I like the composition of the touched up version better but I did lose a lot of the freshness.
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